Philadelphia & Washington, D.C. (July 25, 2016) -- A new Morning Consult poll taken in the days following the
Republican National Convention finds Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton for
the first time ever in Morning Consult polling.

In the national poll, conducted from July 22 through July 24, Trump pulls
ahead of Clinton by 4 points, a sizeable swing from the past week, when the
former secretary of State was clinging to a 2-point lead. Trump has been on a
positive trend since the Department of Justice determined that there wasn't
enough evidence to prosecute Clinton for her use of a private email server for
official business while serving in the Obama administration.

Much of
the shift can be attributed to a consolidation of the base among Republicans.
Eighty-five percent of Republicans in the new poll said they would vote for
Trump, compared with just less than eight in 10 Republicans (79 percent) from
the week before.

The convention itself received a fair amount of attention from the public.
More than half of voters (53 percent) said they listened to a lot or some of the
convention.

Almost half (48 percent) rated Trump's speech as good or excellent, which is
essentially tied with the speech given by his daughter, Ivanka Trump, but higher
than his running mate, Mike Pence, or RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.Along with Ted
Cruz, only the speech from Trump's wife, Melania - widely panned as plagiarizing
Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic National Convention speech - received negative
ratings.More than four in 10 (43 percent) of voters said the convention gave
them a more favorable impression of the Republican Party, whereas three in 10
(31 percent) said tit gave them a less favorable view of the Democratic
Party.

Morning Consult polled 2,502 registered voters from July 22-24 for a margin
of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

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